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    High Seas: The Naval Passage to an Uncharted World
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  7. USS "New Ironsides" in the Civil War
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    The Damned Don't Drown: Sinking of the "Wilhelm Gustloff"
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    You're No Good to Me Dead: Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines
  16. Great American Naval Battles
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  17. Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service
    Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service
  18. Fix Bayonets! (Classics of Naval Literature)
    Fix Bayonets! (Classics of Naval Literature)
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    Running the Blockade: Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks and Escapes During the Civil War (Classics of Naval Literature)
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  23. The Spirit of Aviation: Naval Aviation Museum Collection
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  24. Command at Sea
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  25. Lost Crusade: America's Secret Cambodian Mercenaries (Naval Institute Special Warfare Series)
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High Seas: The Naval Passage to an Uncharted World
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • High Seas
 High Seas: The Naval Passage to an Uncharted World
William A. Owens
Manufacturer: US Naval Institute Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars High Seas.......2006-01-23

This book is about change and innovation in military institutions.

Military organizations, especially successful ones, normally tend to resist change. Order reigns, and there are reasons why this is so. In a very real sense, the lives of the individuals who serve in military organizations depend on other military personnel to act predictably, to be where plans say they should be, at the appointed time, doing what their doctrine and training say they should do...As a result, military organizations view change and innovation with great caution. The wrong change, after all, can be fatal, not just for those in uniform but also for their societies.

But sometimes caution leads to stagnation; and failure to adjust to global changes, advances in military technology, or innovations in the conduct of war can lead to the same kind of disasters that cautious bias about change and innovation was supposed to prevent.

I think we are in such a period...Technology pushes beyond the frontiers we took to be inpenetrable limits only a few years ago...In this new era, it is far more dangerous for American military institutions, and for the U.S. Navy in particular, not to change. -- excepts from book's preface

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